Moving Mountains: Eight Inspiring Self-Help Quotes

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Most of us are in the process of self-improvement, whether we see ourselves as being on a great journey to self actualization, or we just want to be able to complete our tax return on time. In either case, the goal is to be better at being a person. However, as the year ticks over and time inevitably slips away from us, the daily toils and struggles of life means that we can lose that spark of motivation, jettisoning our loftier goals. In these doldrums, we could all use a nudge in the right direction. With this in mind we’ve compiled a list of inspirational quotes from self-help books and inspirational memoirs.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. “A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. “ Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. “A wrestling match.” He laughs. “Yes, you could describe life that way.” So which side wins, I ask? “Which side wins?” He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. “Love wins. Love always wins.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourselves) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless.

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

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